Vocabulary quiz review 9/15

Question 1

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 1

Local and state laws that enforced legal separation of blacks and whites during the Reconstruction Era, lasted until 1965

Question 2

Citizenship

Answer 2

Status of being a citizen in a nation, viewed as a member of that society and given all the rights that society has to offer.

Question 3

Civil Rights

Answer 3

Rights of a citizen to social, political and economic equality and freedom.

Question 4

Women’s Rights

Answer 4

Rights that promote the equality of men and women

Question 5

Amendment

Answer 5

Article or law ADDED to the US constitution

Question 6

Constitution

Answer 6

Rules created to govern the people

Question 7

Segregation

Answer 7

Enforced separation of races (black and white)

Question 8

Race

Answer 8

Group of people sharing the same culture, history, and traditions

Question 9

Equality

Answer 9

State of being equal, having the same rights and liberties

Question 10

Freedom

Answer 10

the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.

Question 11

Reconstruction

Answer 11

Era between 1865 - 1877 where the North tried to unify the USA by adding the South to the Union

Question 12

Assassination

Answer 12

Killing of a leader or important person in an industry or field of study

Question 13

Sharecropping

Answer 13

Farmers cultivate land, giving a part of each crop as rent.

Question 14

Impeach

Answer 14

Investigation of misconduct of the president of the US

Question 15

Ratify

Answer 15

To agree to a law or action

Question 16

Codes

Answer 16

Local rules applied to a group of people.